CoviStory of Mallika Singh

2020- A year that no one can forget. Welcome to our blog "Humans of the Pandemic”. In our opinion, the more you'll interact with people, the more you'll learn. With this positive thought in mind, we had interviewed Ms. Mallika Singh to know how was her world in the time of Covid.

Mallika Singh is a 20-year old college girl as well as a business woman. She is having an online thrift store named Thrift&Co. When we asked her how would she describe her world in the time of Covid she said “To be honest, I was very relaxed because suddenly our hustling life came to a stop and I was really enjoying this break. So, I feel I'm privileged to be able to say this that it was a great period to introspect and spend enough time with your family. She shared that during the initial phase of lockdown all she did was “Cook, Eat, Sleep and Repeat”. After some time, she had started doing internships as well as online courses. She also took fitness classes online to stay healthy and fit.

Would like to know her idea behind starting this business?

Here’s what she shared “In December 2020, my friend, Kanika Ahuja and I decided to start an Online Thrift store where we sell pre-loved/pre-owned and thrifted items. Lockdown made us realize how little we need to survive and how privileged we are to own more than required. Seeing our overflowing wardrobes made us conscious of the fact that how fast fashion hurts our planet. So we decided to choose thrifting over branded clothes and started our little venture.”

There was no impact of Covid on their business as everything was getting back to normal when they had started their business. In Mallika’s opinion Thrifting is good for your wallet and gentler on the environment. By choosing pre-loved items over newly produced pieces, you're shrinking your carbon footprint. You're limiting the amount of natural resources it takes to create new fabric, make the clothing, and ship it hundreds or thousands of miles to the store. Giving a used item new life rescues it from those 26 billion pounds going to the landfill by keeping it in circulation.

Mallika felt that the initiatives taken by the government at the beginning of the pandemic such as lighting the diya and Taali, Thali bajao was a nice way to encourage our covid warriors. The one learning which made her grow as a person was that we should be grateful for whatever we have and we can definitely survive without eating outside junk and all the materialistic things. In the end you don't need anything more than the essentials and your family with you to survive.